The DuckTales trailer is awesome. Time to get excited.

Disney has released a new trailer for the upcoming DuckTales reboot and what they’ve given us is a slick looking new show with an animation style that looks like the old Disney cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s.

When Disney announced that David Tennant, of Dr. Who fame, would be the voice of the Scrooge McDuck, along with Saturday Night Live cast members Bobby Moynihan (voicing one of McDuck’s nephews) and Beck Bennett (the voice of the klutz pilot Launchpad McQuack) would also be a part of the reboot, excitement boiled over. Also part of the cast are Ben Schwartz (Parks & Rec), Danny Pudi (Community) and Kate Micucci.

The look of DuckTales is something animators are borrowing from another Disney project that launched in 2013 in the form of Mickey Shorts— a YouTube series about the misadventures of the mouse that started it all. As ComicsAlliance.com noted in 2013 “Each one demonstrates a sincere fondness and serious study of the character designs of the 1930s while pushing the visuals to the level of sophistication we’ve come to expect from the modern age of cartoons.” The sketched look of those shorts and of DuckTales makes it a look to the past and the future, because it looks and feels crisper than those old Disney cartoons.

One voice that isn’t changing? The voice of Donald Duck, who has been voiced by Tony Anselmo for over 30 years.

The rebooted DuckTales is set to roll out sometime this summer.

Bonus: The original DuckTales theme song:

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